Evan Osnos Quotes
Chinese readers are buying books in translation, particularly non-fiction about China, in large numbers.
Evan Osnos
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
Abigail Adams
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It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.
Vincent D'Onofrio
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The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals? It's very stuck, whereas with electronic music, new sounds are being created.
Flume
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When you're starting a new business, you don't need to know much about it. A lot of the work is blocking and tackling - it's the same type of stuff no matter what sector you're in.
Naveen Jain
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Honestly, I envy painters, who can have a masterpiece in one morning. Or musicians, who can write something in 30 minutes and arrange it in an hour, sometimes. 'Cause with this, with writing, you can occasionally feel like a caveman, like you've been working with pitch and tar on this brush.
Barry Hannah
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You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.
Adam McKay
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Certainly as an actor, half of your work is not going to end up on the screen anyway, because in the editorial process, they need to cut to the other actor in the scene. Very often, your best work ends up on the cutting room floor, because it just doesn't work with the overall narrative drive of the story.
Hart Bochner
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The classic epic fantasy is good versus evil, underdog against power.
Laura Anne Gilman
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It's okay that your parents aren't perfect; no one's are. And it's okay that they didn't have any perfect children either; no one's are. You see, our whole purpose is to strive together in righteousness, overcoming our weaknesses day by day. Don't ever give up on each other.
Ardeth Kapp
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The cello looks like a woman to me. And, you know, the curves. And so I am in a way, and it's funny to admit this, I am sexually attracted to the cello, the curves really get me. So as I watched him play, you know, Yo Yo Ma is sort of making love to a beautiful woman.
Sherman Alexie
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Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
V. S. Naipaul
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Chinese readers are buying books in translation, particularly non-fiction about China, in large numbers.
Evan Osnos
